Given the elitism evident on this thread, it's probable that the political class will likely keep handing the "all-powerful" judiciary the tiny bit of control over our futures they haven't already accrued to themselves.
We're talking about the Federal judiciary and comments by the Chief Justice. If you think that such positions are not "elite" then you must also think a plumber could do brain surgery.
Judges must be lawyers, who have postgraduate training and are by definition elite. So were the Founding Fathers. The idea that just anybody can interpret Constitutional Law at the highest level is laughable. There is work in this world that does require advanced education. Sorry if that plain fact upsets your applecart.
Well said, but ......(here comes the butt), it takes funds to educate the kind of Judges we want and that ain't cheap. It's not like he is going to live high on the hog after he pays his two children's college tuition.
I'm saying the guy deserves 3% for their expenses so they can have the kind of schooling that the nation required of him. We owe him that much.
Now if we want to stop having an Ivy league education be a requirement.....
OK, don't get me stared on that.